...goes on trial today on charges of first-degree murder, kidnapping and aggravated robbery. The other suspect, RussellHenderson, 22, pleaded guilty in April to felony murder and kidnapping and received two life sentences. Shepard, 21, was...

...Pasley had pleaded innocent two weeks earlier. Pasley is one of two women accused of helping Aaron McKinney and RussellHenderson dispose of bloody clothing Henderson wore during the Oct. 7 attack on Matthew Shepard, 21, who was beaten and...

...whose brutality led to demands for hate-crime laws across the country. The other man arrested, 22-year-old RussellHenderson, pleaded guilty in April to kidnapping and murder and is serving two life sentences. The jury deliberated for 10...

...violence is not the solution." Then, despite a rage they have felt for 13 months toward McKinney and co-defendant RussellHenderson - who pleaded guilty earlier this year in the killing - Dennis and Judy Shepard wrote a new chapter in forgiveness...

...kidnapping and aggravated robbery in Shepard's death and could face the death penalty if convicted. A second man, RussellHenderson, 22, pleaded guilty in April to felony murder and kidnapping and received two life sentences. In Fort Collins...

...ended up there on that fateful night, Carter said. Shepard met Aaron McKinney (played by Brendan Fletcher) and RussellHenderson (Ian Somerhalder) in a bar. The two decided to rob him and then, after brutally beating him, left him hanging...

...him alone, no consideration would have been shown to McKinney, who planned the attack. McKinney's accomplice, RussellHenderson, pleaded guilty on the eve of his trial in April in exchange for spending the rest of his life in the Wyoming Penitentiary...

...model of compassion, David Kaczynski said, because she was able to find mercy for Aaron McKinney. McKinney and RussellHenderson beat, pistol-whipped and then tied Matthew Shepard to a fence outside Laramie, Wyo., last October. Both men...